Clinical Endocrinology News highlighted a study by Thomas Buchanan, MD, professor of medicine, comparing gastric banding and metformin for improving insulin sensitivity in patients with early Type 2 diabetes in the following link:
elifesciences.org
Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons are major negative regulators of energy balance. A distinct developmental property of POMC neurons is that they can adopt an orexigenic neuropeptide Y (NPY) phenotype. However, the mechanisms underlying the differentiation of Pomc progenitors remain unknown. Here,....ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Environ Res. 2018 Feb;161:472-478. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.11.046.
